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How Amazon Studios Annedroids is Helping Girls Embrace Their Inner Geek With Science

We are obsessed with
Annedroids, the latest science-based live-action action-adventure
series, designed for 4 to 9 year old children on Amazon Prime. The
premise of the series follows the adventures of young
scientist-inventor Anne, her friends Nick and Shania and the androids
Anne has created, provides rich opportunities for learning about
science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).

Watching Anne and her
friends conduct their experiments and create their inventions allow
viewers to observe the processes of scientific inquiry and
technological problem-solving in action while also learning about
science concepts and seeing positive attitudes towards learning
exhibited.

Anne and her friends’
adventures provide many opportunities to showcase the key processes
of STEM, which are often not addressed well in children’s
television programming. This includes processes involved with
identifying problems and asking questions, making plans and creating
prototypes, experimenting and testing, reflecting and revising. In
particular, it is good to see that Anne and her friends learn as much
from failure as success, and see the failures as opportunities to try
new things.

But the most
fascinating thing about Annedroids is not the storytelling, or how
to show addresses key elements of the next generation science standards in the kindergarten to grade 5 range, but role modeling,
especially for girls. This is a show that has some serious girl power.
Annedroids, is one of the very rare shows that have a “Stem
Heroine”. Girls that love science can relate to Anne, a brilliant young
scientist who is a genius at building robots and creating artificial
intelligence. Anne makes science cool and interesting and show girls
that it's okay to be smart and embrace their inner geek.

Each
of the characters in this ensemble cast, both human and android,
brings a unique perspective and set of life experiences to
bear when exploring concepts or solving problems. It may be Shania’s
knowledge of dinosaurs or emotional intelligence, Nick’s
out-of-the-box thinking or athletic prowess, Hand’s amazing
strength, Eye’s power of observation, or Pal’s insatiable desire
to learn about

anything
and everything. Their combined knowledge and skills, together with a
large helping of collaboration and teamwork, enable Anne and her
friends to overcome just about any challenge thrown at them. Whether
human or android, there is a character on the show that every viewer
can identify with.

Earlier
this summer, Amazon Studios released two additional children’s
series: a stop-motion animated series encouraging creative scientific
discovery called Tumble Leaf and an interactive art adventure for
preschoolers called Creative Galaxy.

I was selected for this opportunity as a member of Clever Girls Collective and the content and opinions expressed here are all my own.